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DDATE(1) [[Emperor Norton]] Utilities DDATE(1) |
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NAME |
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ddate - converts Gregorian dates to [[Discordian]] dates |
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SYNOPSIS |
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ddate [+format] [date] |
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DESCRIPTION |
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ddate prints the date in Discordian date format. |
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If called with no arguments, ddate will get the current |
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system date, convert this to the Discordian date format |
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and print this on the standard output. Alternatively, a |
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Gregorian date may be specified on the command line, in |
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the form of a numerical day, month and year. |
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If a format string is specified, the Discordian date will |
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be printed in a format specified by the string. This mech- |
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anism works similarly to the format string mechanism of |
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date(1), only almost completely differently. The fields |
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are: |
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%A Full name of the day of the week (i.e., Sweetmorn) |
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%a Abbreviated name of the day of the week (i.e., SM) |
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%B Full name of the season (i.e., Chaos) |
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%b Abbreviated name of the season (i.e., Chs) |
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%d Ordinal number of day in season (i.e., 23) |
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%e Cardinal number of day in season (i.e., 23rd) |
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%H Name of current Holyday, if any |
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%N Magic code to prevent rest of format from being |
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printed unless today is a Holyday. |
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%n Newline |
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%t Tab |
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%X Number of days remaining until X-Day. (Not valid if |
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the SubGenius options are not compiled in.) |
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%{ |
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%} Used to enclose the part of the string which is to |
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be replaced with the words "St. Tib's Day" if the |
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current day is St. Tib's Day. |
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%. Try it and see. |
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59 Bureaucracy 3161 1 |
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DDATE(1) Emperor Norton Utilities DDATE(1) |
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EXAMPLES |
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% ddate |
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Sweetmorn, Bureaucracy 42, 3161 YOLD |
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% ddate +'Today is %{%A, the %e of %B%}, %Y. %N%nCelebrate %H' |
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Today is Sweetmorn, the 42nd of Bureaucracy, 3161. |
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% ddate +"It's %{%A, the %e of %B%}, %Y. %N%nCelebrate %H" 26 9 1995 |
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It's Prickle-Prickle, the 50th of Bureaucracy, 3161. |
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Celebrate Bureflux |
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% ddate +'Today's %{%A, the %e of %B%}, %Y. %N%nCelebrate %H' 29 2 1996 |
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Today's St. Tib's Day, 3162. |
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BUGS |
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ddate(1) will produce undefined behaviour if asked to pro- |
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duce the date for St. Tib's day and its format string does |
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not contain the St. Tib's Day delimiters %{ and %}. |
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NOTE |
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After `X-Day' passed without incident, the Church of the |
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SubGenius declared that it had got the year upside down - |
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X-Day is actually in 8661 AD rather than 1998 AD. Thus, |
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the True X-Day is Cfn 40, 9827. |
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AUTHOR |
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Original program by Druel the Chaotic aka Jeremy Johnson |
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(mpython@gnu.ai.mit.edu) |
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Major rewrite by Lee H:. O:. Smith, KYTP, aka Andrew |
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Bulhak (acb@dev.null.org) |
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Five tons of flax. |
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DISTRIBUTION POLICY |
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Public domain. All rites reversed. |
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SEE ALSO |
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date(1), |
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http://www.subgenius.com/ |
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Malaclypse the Younger, Principia Discordia, Or How I |
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Found Goddess And What I Did To Her When I Found Her |
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59 Bureaucracy 3161 2 |
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<pre> |
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I added a little discordian hack to the wiki today cause it was the 23rd of 5 .;) |
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If you use $ddate in this wiki, it will be replaced by the current discordian date |
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as calculated by the ddate command described above. |
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(Our server time should be CentralEuropeanTime zone). --mutante |
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</pre> |
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Example: $ddate |
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[[Discordianism]] |
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[[Category:Discordian]] |
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[[Category:Linux]] |
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[[Category:Scripts]] |
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[[Category:Fun]] |
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Latest revision as of 19:15, 12 April 2006
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